Dentons Canada LLP (Dentons) is pleased to announce that the University of Toronto has won top honours at the 4th annual Donald G.H. Bowman National Tax Moot.

The other winners include Sheena Lessard, University of Toronto for Best Advocate, Western University for Best Factum – Appellant, and University of British Columbia for Best Factum – Respondent.

The moot, named after the Honourable Donald G.H. Bowman, former Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada and Counsel to Dentons, was held on February 28 and March 1 at the Federal Courts Building at 180 Queen Street West in Toronto.

Forty students from nine law school across Canada competed in the two-day moot. The students argued the actual case of Johnson v. The Queen (2012 FCA 253, rev’g 2011 TCC 540). The judges of the moots included jurists from the Federal Court of Appeal and Tax Court, and lawyers from the Department of Justice and private practice.

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